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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Want to Talk to Mother?

Lily said she talked to the man's wife, who called her sister. She also spoke with his two other daughters but didn't hear a single word from him. Lily then asked: Do you know anyone who could make this into a movie? "I'm telling you, it's a love story and it's a movie," I replied. 'You will never understand how much he loves you,' one of them told me. And all of a sudden I started to cry'

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